The Black Phone
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The Black Phone is a horror short story by Joe Hill about a kidnapped boy who receives ghostly phone calls from the killer’s previous victims.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Black Phone canonical | 14 |
| The Black Phone (2021 film) | 2 |
| The Black Phone (film) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8319380 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Black Phone Context triple: [20th Century Ghosts, containsWork, The Black Phone]
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A.
The Night House
The Night House is a 2020 psychological horror film in which Rebecca Hall plays a grieving widow uncovering disturbing secrets about her late husband and their lakeside home.
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B.
The Babadook
The Babadook is a 2014 Australian psychological horror film about a grieving mother and her troubled son who are terrorized by a sinister entity emerging from a mysterious children's pop-up book.
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C.
Silent House
Silent House is a novel by Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk that explores family tensions and Turkey’s turbulent political and social changes on the eve of the 1980 military coup.
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D.
You’re Next
"You’re Next" is a 2011 home-invasion horror film known for its dark humor, inventive kills, and twist on the final-girl trope.
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E.
Unsane
Unsane is a 2018 psychological horror-thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh, known for being shot entirely on an iPhone and starring Claire Foy as a woman involuntarily committed to a mental institution.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Black Phone Target entity description: The Black Phone is a horror short story by Joe Hill about a kidnapped boy who receives ghostly phone calls from the killer’s previous victims.
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A.
The Night House
The Night House is a 2020 psychological horror film in which Rebecca Hall plays a grieving widow uncovering disturbing secrets about her late husband and their lakeside home.
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B.
The Babadook
The Babadook is a 2014 Australian psychological horror film about a grieving mother and her troubled son who are terrorized by a sinister entity emerging from a mysterious children's pop-up book.
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C.
Silent House
Silent House is a novel by Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk that explores family tensions and Turkey’s turbulent political and social changes on the eve of the 1980 military coup.
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D.
You’re Next
"You’re Next" is a 2011 home-invasion horror film known for its dark humor, inventive kills, and twist on the final-girl trope.
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E.
Unsane
Unsane is a 2018 psychological horror-thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh, known for being shot entirely on an iPhone and starring Claire Foy as a woman involuntarily committed to a mental institution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feature film
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horror fiction ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
The Black Phone (film)
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linked to:
The Black Phone
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| antagonist | The Grabber ⓘ |
| author | Joe Hill ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Black Phone ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
child abduction
ⓘ
revenge ⓘ supernatural communication ⓘ survival ⓘ trauma ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| director | Scott Derrickson ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | The Grabber ⓘ |
| firstPublication | 20th Century Ghosts ⓘ |
| genre | horror ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Black Phone (film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Black Phone
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| hasConflict | child vs serial killer ⓘ |
| hasDevice | ghostly phone calls as a means of guidance ⓘ |
| hasSupernaturalElement |
a mysterious black telephone
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ghosts of murdered children ⓘ |
| hasTone |
dark
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suspenseful ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | John Finney ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| partOf | Joe Hill bibliography ⓘ |
| periodOfSetting | late 20th century ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A kidnapped boy receives phone calls from the killer’s previous victims on a disconnected black phone. ⓘ |
| protagonist | John Finney ⓘ |
| publicationType | collection inclusion ⓘ |
| publishedIn | 20th Century Ghosts ⓘ |
| publisher |
HarperCollins
ⓘ
PS Publishing ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2021 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
C. Robert Cargill
ⓘ
Scott Derrickson ⓘ |
| setting | a basement where the boy is imprisoned ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Black Phone Description of subject: The Black Phone is a horror short story by Joe Hill about a kidnapped boy who receives ghostly phone calls from the killer’s previous victims.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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The Black Phone
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